Thursday, 2 August 2012

7e Division d'Infanterie Nord-Africaine

Al's recent post on his 1940 Morrocan infantry prompted me to dig out these veterans for a photo shoot. Unlike industrious Al who is fiddling around with head swops and the like, I simply drafted these (metal) figures in from the old Hotspur Spanish Civil War range. These began life in the late 1980s as (Spanish)Morrocans with either turbans or fez. Adding a few figures from the 1990s FAA French range gave me enough to man a whole division.

The three infantry regiments.

For the divisional cavalry squadrons I used Raventhorpe Spahis. These are lovely figures which fit in well with the infantry.

Le General is another Raventhorpe cavalryman in a proper French kepi. He is accompanied by a Hotspur standard bearer. It is a sad indictment of the French supply services that his tricolore has not yet been delivered...

The division's artillery is represented by this rather dodgy model. It may look more 18pdr than 75mm but it was cheap (£1). I replace the original rubber-tyred wheels with spoked items. The crew are basically the left-over figures I had from building the infantry regiments. It is drawn by a pair of Irregular Miniatures horses hitched to an old Airfix ACW limber.

The assembled division. Definitely one of my more charismatic French divisions.

11 comments:

I really like these. I’ve just been going through my odds and sods box of WW2ish 1/76th scale stuff in the last hour and your post gives me some ideas or rather inspiration for what I might be able to do with them.

A fine looking outfit. It's always good to have within one's army formations that are equipped with something less than the latest mechanised equipment - something a little more 'hand to mouth'. This sort of thing fills the bill.Cheers,Ion

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I built my first plastic kit in about 1971 (an inevitable Airfix Spitfire IX), and can date my wargaming 'career' back to 1977 (aged 11) when in the company of my friends John and Lee I played a simple game with the Airfix (20mm) tanks we had accumulated. Soon a chance find of a couple of Don Featherstone books in the local library revealed that 'grown-ups' did this sort of thing too! I joined Wargame Developments in 1985 and have attended their annual Conference of Wargamers (COW) since 1990. I have also, together with Bob Cordery, been organising it for the past few years. My main interest has always been WW2, with a side order of various postwar conflicts. I also dabble in earlier periods. I am particularly interested in 'operational' level games.